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VIDEO: Richard Hawley – Dont Stare At The Sun

• 22nd Jan 2013

Following the announcement last night that Richard Hawley has been shortlisted in the ‘British Male Solo Artist’ category at this year’s BRIT Awards, Parlophone Records will release Don’t Stare At The Sun; the fourth and final single from Hawley’s remarkable seventh album, Standing At The Sky’s Edge.

Don’t Stare At The Sun is one of the more reflective tracks from the album, a keynote performance suffused with a sense of cosmic serenity. It covers a huge distance: a meditation that took inspiration from – on one hand – a woozy morning shared by young son and sleep-deprived father flying a kite in the park and – on the other – the fate that met Isaac Newton when he decided to stare into the sun. “He burnt the retinas in his eyes,” explains Hawley, “so that, from that moment on, everything he saw was gold.”

The accompanying video, produced and directed by Daniel Wolfe and George Belfield, is a beautifully evocative video, which captures people in moments of contemplation. It was cast and filmed in Hawley’s home town of Sheffield.

Richard Hawley tours the UK in February:
FEB 2013
17 Buxton Opera House
18 Edinburgh Picturehouse
20 Bristol Colston Hall
21 Leamington Spa Assembly Hall
22 Cambridge Corn Exhange
23 London Troxy
25 Liverpool Philharmonic
26 Hull City Hall